in 1848, she marries him and named andrew ballard and ballard has a few slaves. he is kind of fun to struggling lawyer and of the bool full bar, so he is ambitious, use a few properties, but isn't anywhere near the social class of the thirst ends. her family is large the aware of the max. there is just a great material about their courtship and the problems they have an amateur professing undying love for her if she's questioning whether he might be after the money or after her family connection. you would say no, no. it's really germanic and romantic. all this stuff was preserved. so she eventually married him and in an unusual move, he moves into their house. so it is fanny and andrew and charles william, her father in a big house on walnuts tree, which may have been grown to the old man who is not losing his daughter. he is gaining a son-in-law. and then, she does like 19th century women do, start saving kids. they have five kids. one dies in infancy and so she has four sons and a daughter. between 1848 and 1858. so she's busy. and she's just becomes a kind of

ballard on a trip to niagara falls. this is 20 minutes. .. younger sister and younger brother and a younger sister was very young and so most likely mary who was the mother was purchased as a kind of made for the infant, and so that's when they would meet and the household kind of came together in that fashion. >> so they kind of grew up together? >> the did grow up together. and in fact, the younger children, fanny's number brother and sister died quite young in the mid 1830's, one right after the other. so, you know, you can imagine this big family of four and it goes -- a big family of six goes to a family of four and all of a sudden fanny is no longer the big sister, she's little girl again and of a person nearest to her age in the house is cecilia, so they do grow up as companions and probably something close to friends when they were younger because at that point the fanny wouldn't have had a lot of slave mistress expectations on her, not yet. and cecilia would have had chores and tasks to do but she would have been a kind of i guess mo

and in 1848 she married a man named andrew ballard who is a lawyer in louisville. and ballard has a few slaves. is kind of on the struggling lawyer and of the louisville bar. so he's ambitious. he owns a few properties but he's not anywhere near the social class of thruston. her family is largely opposed to the match. there's just great material in their a about their courtship and about the problem they have an andrew professing his undying love for her. issues questioning whether he might be after her money or after her family connection. no, no. a truly dramatic and romantic, and kind of cool how all this stuff was preserved. but she eventually married him, and he any kind of unusual move, he moves into their house, the thruston house. so it's fanny and andrea and charles william, her father all living in a big house on walnut street. which may have been a bone thrown to the old man to kind of, you know, he's not losing his daughter, he's gaining a son-in-law. and then she does like 19th century women do, she starts having kids. they have five kids, one died in

robert ballard who is the guy who found the titanic and has started this project called the jason project which is science education project. it's unbelievable. he was in thed ary attic having just discovered with his team this summer, with students and teachers onboard, this program is free. to, yeah, they have discovered 11 shipwrecks in the black sea and in the adriatic and we should have this program in our schools and we really need to get on that. so that was a wonderful opportunity and thanks aspca. the last thingsy wanted to acknowledge that our parliamentarian celebrated her 92nd birthday on august 15. [applause] send our demrations -- congratulations. ♪ happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear ms. wilson happy birthday to you and many more ♪ [applause] >> brains of the operation, if i might add. vice president yee: commissioner maufas was real brave. she left her microphone on to be word recorded. any other reports? commissioner murase: i just want to announce that the green school yard conference is happening here in san francisco , september 16 to 18 and

i think that i see ms ballard. i wanted to acknowledge jake, a wonderful section manager that oversees dolores park. i would hazard to guess that it is the most challenging part in the city for good and challenging reasons. a very popular park. let's thank you. -- >> thank you. >> perhaps mr. anderson can start with an overview? >> i am the parks service manager for rec and park. dolores park is our major facility. but there are other devotions in a number of facilities. briefly i wanted to talk about the impact on the park itself and the operational impact of maintaining the abandoned station. so, i am going to wing it in terms of overall, this station, which has close to follow, is really the definition of an attractive nuisance. not only is it the graffiti that you have seen, it is illegal encampments, public latrines, shooting galleries, you name it. the maintenance burden put on us in the past has been quite high. so, overall in the scope of -- ok. you will see, as this comes up on the overhead, briefly, dolor

commercial success some animation so far is this series shari king the popularity of believe to around ballard garrett is so huge that the decision was made to distribute good to an international but still the real pride of russian animation and noncommercial projects so what like the recently released barrymore didn't stop motion the ugly duckling with tchaikovsky's music as the soundtrack only for you should make you soft money are currently being made and you will destroy some making company so use my film. and i think you are the best people to ask what's the main difference between russian and american approaches to generation but all the examples what we just saw. we can talk about success when. those are really deeply individual pieces been made by great artists and. carpet towards. can mass production of all of the same episode of the same kind of episode because we've got to weaken a little generation is a really great that is great only and mainly because of that he does what he feels he has to do and exactly the way. he feels it has to be done i can easily imagine that if it was. re

got an interview with him later but let's go back to this exorbitant privilege because this is what ballard just saying said as she referred to but this was under the charles de gaulle administration recall and this is the first time that america really went bankrupt big time on the global stage because in one nine hundred sixty nine charles de gaulle asked for the three hundred million dollars worth of gold that the u.s. technically owed france due to the trade deficit and france sent a naval ship over here to new york to collect their gold and america had to give it to france had to give the three hundred million dollars worth of gold shortly there after great and asked for their gold as well which was similarly about three hundred million dollars america went bankrupt basically they said no we closed the gold window we're not going to pay you what we owe you so this is this whole debt ceiling debacle has already happened before spectacularly america did go bust but charles de gaulle had warned that you know it was the post bretton woods the bretton woods era when they established the u.s

insisting they rioting broke out as a result of their pace that's what lived our city came david ballard a commentator for social issues websites the institute of ideas dot com made us being with us here just about now do you think that four years in prison for calling for riot never actually happened is a just sentence. no i don't and i think we're seeing quite a having had. recently shaken last week with people we've been unable to keep the streets safe i think we've seen quite a superficial and dangerous kneejerk reaction now from the police and the authorities they try to regain that will it superficially seem to be been hounded quite severe sentences for oftentimes quite a minor role in the riots and often for crimes such as stealing a bottle of water or some ice cream which they would have been very unlikely to face charges. jail sentence if they can if you go for a long week before any strangers because we may all seen. new jerk reaction to people. to say they want to have a right even if they haven't followed up organizing the right itself which is already i think. the distinctio

. >> so cool, canadian who wrote a ballard and united kept blowing him off and he puts that out therelip of tchit. >> great. ♪ united, some big help you are ♪ ♪ you broke, you should fix it ♪ you're liable, just admit it ♪ i should have flown with someone else or gone by car ♪ >> i love that. so, obviously not everybody can make a video. >> right. >> any guerilla tactic works, whether the old-fashioned days, i would tell someone if it is a local business and not behaving, go picket in front of business. today, we have electronic picketing, united breaks guitars was an example of electronic picket egg and also, dig through and find the names of third level executives at a big.can, never the ceo, never the coo, the next level down, try to figure out their e-mail address which you can usually do through press releases the company puts out and you e-mail that person. >> oh. >> yeah. >> that sounds nasty. >> it s but you want results. >> yes, of course. >> a lot of big companies spend their days figuring out how not toself you instead of to serve you, you got to reeducate them their job is